Hear story from NPR. I say... they probably compounded an already dreadful situation by issuing a warrant against a sitting head of State. These warrants typically aren't pursued.... at least not immediately. In the meantime, the suffering will be a Hell of a lot worse for the people who the ICC wan...

The International Criminal Court recently issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, a move Sudanese officials denounced as politically motivated. Will it ever be the case that the ICC takes former U.S. President George W. Bush to task? READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries March ...

Iran: Wants to wipe Israel off the map. Hamas: Genocide of the Jews is in its charter. Sudan: Actually committing genocide, right now! Solidarity mission of Iran and Hamas to Sudan: Utterly unsurprising....

Yesterday, headlines informed attentive audiences that the president of Sudan, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, had been issued with an arrest warrant by the ICC's prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo. A straightforward success story according to Human Rights Watch and like-minded organisations. Regimes that murder...

Yesterday, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir became the first sitting head of state to have a warrant issued for his arrest.  The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued it pursuant to an indictment against him for war crimes and crimes against humanity, all stemmig from the atrocities A...

There have been other articles on the subject, but this article by articleheadline = "Howard Jacobson: Let’s see the 'criticism' of Israel for what it really is"; Howard Jacobson in The Independent really gets to the underlying truths:A discriminatory, over-and-above hatred, inexplicable in it...

When You Watched the News Today Did You See Any of This ? The Lord’s Resistance Army, once a Ugandan group, has driven tens of thousands from their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan since it launched a campaign of terror at Christmas. Also did you see any mention of The Ninet...

Some upcoming events of interest for those in the Nashville area: “Gender Embodied,” the first in a four-part series, “The Anatomy of Identity” Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m Free and open to the public Schulman Center at Vanderbilt “Come explore how gender is a part of how...

There is a tremendous worldwide focus on (and condemnation of) Israel's legitimate actions to defend itself from those who wish to destroy it-- but mostly silence about other, much larger conflicts. Of course its legitimate to criticize some aspects of Israeli policy-- but the obsessive quality of m...

I am writing this review during the Israeli attacks on Gaza of December 2008/January 2009, a war in which civilians are being used as punch-balls in the propaganda war, as surely as they are victims of the physical one. Both sides claim their actions have the purpose of protecting civilians. Both di...